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@nimh gieten @anni @Hite EDWIN F. SHERMAN, 0F CHICOPEE, ASSIGNOR HIMSELFND A. W. KELLOGG, OF PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters .Patent No. 80,227, datecLJuZy 21, 1868.

IMPEOVED BELT-HOOK.

TO-ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, EDWIN F. SHERMAN, of Chicopee, in the county ofHampden, and State of Massachusctts, have invented a new and usefulImproved Belt-Hook; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had'to theaccompanying drawings, making a par# 0f this specification, and to theVletters of reference marked thereon, in whichi Figure 1 is a plan viewof one side ofthe hook.

Figure 2 is a. plan view ofthe reverse side.

Figure 3 is a. side elevation of the hook.

Figure 4 is a perspective view ofthe same.

Figure 5 is a plan viewvot` a portion of a belt, showing the applicationof my invention in securing its two ends together.

Figure 6 is a plan view of the reverse side ofthe same.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of a hooli. usedto secure the ends of a belt to each other, whereby the strain orpulling-force Aof the hook may be exerted through a. larger portion ofthe belt', or, in other words, that thehook may have'an additionalbearing at eaclLend, overthose now in coinmon use.Y

As belt-hooks are now constructed, there is but one bearing or hook ateach end of the device, and-after Ia belt hasbeen secured somelittleftirne by one of these common single hooks,V there beinglbut onehook or.bearing at each end, the belt either'stretches out at 'the piacewhere the hole is made to'insert the hookfor it tears away altogether,and the belt either has to be made shorter, a. new piece putin, or a.new belt made.

My invention in a great measure obviates these troubles, as'I obtain adouble bearing in therbelt at each end o f the hook, therebycausing thebelt, at the place where it is punched or perforated for the purpose ofinserting the hoolntto lest much longer without tearing away orstretching. v

That others skilled in the art may be able to make and use my invention,I will proceed to describe its construction and application to use. I

In the drawings-' t v t A representsa piece lot' metal, which [nay-beefany desired form in section, (I prefer that shown in the drawings/.J andof the required hardness and stiffness, and which is bent into suchforni that it may have the central longitudinal bar e, connecting withthe twobearings or hooks. i at r r, while the two bars c e connect theends s s ot' said hooks it' to the'hooks a a; said hooks a a'he'ing upon`the extremeonter ends of thebars c c, and forniing the two outer hooks,while the projections form the two inner-hooks, there being thus fourseparate and distinct'bearing-surfaces or hooks, forming collectivelyasingle belt-hook. v

When it is desired. to unite'the two ends ot'ra belt together, by meansof my invention, the ends of the belt are properlycutoii' at any desiredangle, and the holes 6 L m n ae made in the ends .of Vthe belt, as showni figs. 5 and 6.

The belt-hooli'is there held with one of the `hooks. a, inserted in thehole m or h upon either side of thebelt, the otherend 'a beingr backfrom the end ofthe belt beyond the hole n or I1. 'I he end a, which isinserted in the hole Lor m, is 'then' forced farther' through the/holeFt or m, and back towhrds thel hole n or b, while the other end oi' thehook is brought over toward the end of the belt, which movement causesthe end a, which was inserted in the hole h or m, to enter the hole b orn from the other side of the belt, and protrude.through to the same sideof the b-elt at which Vit entered the hole h or The hook is now whollyinserted inthe holes at one end of the belt. The two ends ot' the beltare now placed together, with either their right or wrong sidestogether, and the other endA of the hook inserted in the other end ofthebelt inprecisely the satne nianner.

It is evident that the hook-portions a a z' i may be made curved,instead -of being at a right Aangle with the central bnr c, withoutdeparting from the principle oi' itsoperation. l t

This makes a strong connection .for a belt, which adapts itself to anyposition which the belt may attain,

and passes over a pulley with equal facility as a common leather-lacingconnection, and a belt may be easily and quickly disconnected andrepaired in ease of breakage or stretching, and a. belt-connected withthis device and in this manner will last much longer vthnnit' connectedwith any other hook now in use.

The device is easily and cheaply made, and may he made of any desiredlength and size to snit the different Y widths' and weights of belts, lA

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, iS-

l The foin" hooks a z' z' a, all connected longitudinally, by'nueans of`the central bar e and the two end hars Vce, the wholeconstituting'a.belt-hook, and constructedsubstantially as herein described, and for thepurposes specified.

In testimony ivhereof, witness my hand, this fourth day of April, A. D.1868 l EDWIN F. SHERMAN.

Witnesses T. A. CURTIS, F. E. RICE. Y.

